Name: Saegusa Gozen *Rina is her taken name*
Age: Early thirties
True Age: 1560
Sex: Female
Personality: Rina is devoted, protective to her friends and family, and also devoted to Soul Society and the souls therein. She is however moody, sometimes even numb and unresponsive against threats against herself or others.
She is impatient and hasty when it comes to rude people, and when she is tired or wounded. Rina is self-conscious and very much a lady, her clothes are always clean and she showers at least once a day. For example, she never raise her voice, even though she is mad as hell itself.
She puts herself between danger and someone else without hesitation, and never really contemplates the consequences, on more than one occasion she suffered injuries due to her actions. If children are involved, Rina’s need to protect multiplies and few would dare to cross her.
She enjoys arts, she plays several instruments, dance, and paint. She also enjoys singing, she is a person who never is truly still.
Likes: Healing(medicine), Children, Food, Training, Horses, Apples, Tea
Fears: Loss, Pain, Loneliness.

Character Appearance

Height: 168 cm / 5.5 f
Weight: 62 kg / 137 lb
Physical Traits: Rina is tall and slim, she has a tattoo over her right shoulder with Koi-fishes and red jasmine-flowers. Her hair is purple, even if it was dark-brown before her death, and it reach to her shoulder blades. Her eyes are green.

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Clothing: Rina wears the standard uniform whilst she is working, but of the clock she prefers kimonos of rather bright colors. When she is training she usually have a sleeveless outfit (much like the ones that SoiFon and Yoruichi wears.)
Accessories: She usually wears earrings or something similar and at times rings.

Fighting Style

General Fighting Style: Rina relies on agility and speed when fighting and prefers using only one hand. She also stabs more than slash, but have a good guard. Rina is ambidextrous, so she can switch her steering hand rather un-noticed and change attack patterns. She is adept at both hadou and zanjutsu mostly due to the education she had in her living life. She excels at using Kidou and her Shikai’s abilities.
Strengths: Kidou, Speed, Agility, zanjutsu
Weaknesses: Fatigues easily, she angers at injuries, and she rather place herself between an enemy’s blade and an ally to protect them. And the fact that she is tires easily puts her at a disadvantage when it comes to fighting someone bigger than herself.

Zanpakuto & Kidou

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A daishou consisting of a katana (67 cm) and a wakizashi (47 cm) in a dark purple and green scabbard, the tsubas are shaped like two Koi.
Spirit’s Name: Sui Ren (waterlily)
Spirit’s Appearance: Sui Ren are actually Sui and Ren, a pair of twins, identical but Sui have a huge Koi tattoo on her back whilst Ren only have a tattoo over her upper right arm.

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Spirit’s Personality: Sui and Ren are calm and caring, not much budge the faith they have for Rina although Ren is a more silent and unforgiving then Sui. Ren is also the one that is the aggressor when it comes to attacking, whilst Sui concentrates more on healing and protecting. As a whole, the twins cooperate to perfection, when Rina comes to them while meditating; they oft sit and talk for hours, even when Rina is on the outside their voices sometimes reach her.
Inner World: A vast Japanese garden with a large Koi-pond in the centre, where the twins usually resides.

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Kidou: Bakudou:
Nr 8 Seki, repulse
Nr 26 Kyokkou, Bent light, Hides the target from sight, by bending light. The spell has the ability to totally hide the presence and reiatsu of the user or specified object
Nr 30 shitotsu Sansen, beak-piercin triple beam
Nr 58 kakushitsuijaku, Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows
Nr 77 Tenteikūra, Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air
Hadou:
Nr 4 Byakurai, Pale Lightning
Nr 11 Tsuzuri Raiden, Bound Lightning
Nr 12 Fushibi, Ambush Flare
Nr 31 Shakkahou, Red Fire Cannon
Nr 32 Oukasen, Yellow Fire Flash
Nr 33 Soukatsui, Blue fire, crash down
Nr 54 Haien, abolishing flames
Nr 58 Tenran, Orchid Sky
Nr 63 Raikouhou, Thunder Roar Sear
Nr 73 Souren Soukatsui, twin lotus Blue fire, crash down

Shikai

Call Out Command: Sakihokoru (be in full bloom) Sui Ren
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Simply put, Sui Ren is a dividable staffweapon, the blades are 80 cm in length, and the handles are 40 cm. The splitting of the weapon is done by the call Heki (split)
Abilities:
Dokusenjou, (Unrivaled Sphere of activity), A defensive shield that either (if swiftly needed) only is a flat screen in front of Rina, shield from 50% of the attack. If properly set up it is a Sphere that deflects most attacks, takes one round to set up, last for one round, the Sphere does however remove Rina from the battle; she can pull two individuals into the sphere alongside herself.
The first part of dokensenjou is simply performed by cutting the blade of Sui down infront of Rina, the full Dokensenjou requires stabbing Sui into the ground or any other solid material. Therefore the shield cannot be used in air combat. Cool Down, one post/2 posts

Tsutakazura Karamasu, (Entangling Vines): ropelike Vines that that ties the opponent tightly or at least latch onto them, allowing Rina to use hadou or Bakufuu to attack. Strengt droph wise; bakudou nr 63 Sajou Sabaku, someone very strong could break the vines, and someone quick would be able to sidestep it. Holds for 2 posts, cooldown 3 posts

Hakyuukouka, (Ripple Effect): Offensive attack that confuse the enemy by making moving everything slightly of focus, sight and hearing. In addition, as it affects the hearing, people tend to get slightly off balance as well. This Attack last 1 posts and have a spherical diameter of 20 meters. If performed on a surface of water this attack is 30 meters diameter. Reiatsu based attack. Cooldown: 1 posts

Bakufuu, (shockwave): Spheres of condensed reiatsu mixed with Kidou. Takes no time to prepare, looks and performs much like a bala, and injures likewise. Rina is able to fire 20 of these.

Guren (Crimson Lotus): A blade-like energy attack that spread out before Ren, the reach of this attack is 50 meters, and since it is very swift, it is hard to evade. The force of the attack is in the Hadou seventies. One Post, one post cooldown.

Boosts: Reiatsu*2; Speed*2

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Fathered by Yamamoto Kansuke in the year 1551 Gozen was born into one of the general Samurai families. She was however soon betrothed in marriage to one of her fathers’ fellow generals Saegusa Moritomo, retainer of the Takeda Clan, and sent to her future husbands’ family to be adopted and raised. She was four at the time and was rather scared of her future mother-in-law when she met her; the fear soon subsided, as the elderly Saegusa Kaede was a warm and caring woman.

Kaede ruled her sons’ household with an iron hand but was gentle enough to keep the retainers loyal to her. Gozen learned much by just observing her mother-in-law and the few visits she conducted to her own mother and old home made her realize the difference between the rather weak-minded mother she had and Kaede. Her disrespect of her mother was never openly and Kaede reprimanded the girl when she brought it up during a lesson. Her father however had Gozen’s respect, the elderly mans’ clear handicaps and yet be an excellent strategist, a fierce samurai and one of Takeda Shingens’ generals. She also met her three brothers at the same time, all three much older than her, although they liked their younger sister who was both boisterous and well behaved. Kanzou, who was the adopted 18-year-old brother was particularly fond of her and gave her a yumi as a parting gift. Her future husband bestowed a hairpiece made with sea turtle-shell upon her.

Gozen’s education evolved as she aged, at age seven, she was able to fire the yumi with accuracy and of course, it was a bow that was her size. She learned reading and writing, as well as calligraphy. The lessons were diverse and differed from mathematics to kata. Kaede-sama raised Gozen as an onna-bugeisha and future holder of Moritomo’s household. When Gozen turned nine her mother passed away and her father and Kanzou died within the year at the battle at Kawanakajima. The girl was unsure on how she was to react on her parents’ deaths, as she did not know them very well. She did grief when her future husband came to the house, although Kaede-sama instructed her how to behave.

The years pasted and soon before Gozens’ 14th birthday she had her menarche and celebrated as it meant that she was a woman, fertile and would be married with Morimoto within the year. The young woman was delighted and still slightly terrified; the other women in the household prepared her for everything that would come with a marriage. The age difference between Gozen and Morimoto was according to her mother-in-law just a good thing, it meant that Morimoto would be calm and used to ‘handling young scared virgins’.

A few months after the wedding Gozen was announced as pregnant, and the young woman was blossoming throughout her first trimester but during the second trimester she started to be ill, headaches and onslaughts of fever, and she was bedridden and weak as the child inside her continued to grow. The day of the delivery was confusing for Gozen and she never really realized that she had passed until her hands went through the weeping babe.

Gozen was heartbroken to see her child in the hands of a nursemaid, and the child stopped crying when Gozen approached which both scared and gladdened her but Gozen knew that she would have to leave soon enough. She had noticed the chain attached to her chest losing its links and instinctively knew that to be a bad sign.

After two years, a woman dressed in black kimono approached her and more or less forced Gozen to move onto Soul Society.
In Soul Society

Gozen took the name Rina when she came to the Soul Society, she had little luck and came to the 79th east district and all her fight and bravado did little to keep her safe in the beginning, and they abused her on several occasions. Rina left the Rukongai and ventured into the forests surrounding the city where she remained for a very long time, hiding away from the cruel reality that was her life now. The following four centauries she met few people and those that she did met saw her more like a feral than anything else. It was during the isolated years she first heard the voices in the back of her head, the woman was convinced that it was the seclusion from other humans that caused the instability in her mind, and that it was a mental condition and nothing else.
A kind elderly noble woman who she in some way recognized forced her return to the Rukongai, the elderly woman placed her in a house in the 12th western district, and Rina readapted to living among people again.

She started to treat the sick when an epidemic struck the Rukongai and after the outbreak, she continued to work helping young children and women so they would not endure the same fate as her. Rina continued with this work, which brought her into the higher districts, now she carried a blade and was able to defend herself against any attackers. She opened an orphanage in the 78th east district, gathering as many children there as she could, keep them safe.

The years passed on, Rina’s orphanage blossomed, and she saw children grow into adults and elderly, yet Rina seemed no older than the day she had started the orphanage. She was one of the few in the area that needed to eat, Rina noticed that a number of the children were hungry as well and when she found some of the children playing with orbs of reiatsu she knew that they should be sent on to the Academy to be educated. For herself, she was not too worried about going to the academy; after all, she was needed to tend the little ones.

When Rukongai started to change to the better the need of her house lessened and the ones living there grew up and moved away, still visiting Rina but nevertheless she was alone again.
It was then she decided to attend the interviews for acceptance into the Shinou Academy and admitted to the advanced class at once.
RP Sample:
She was feeding the growing fire with kindling, she was about to prepare the meager breakfast for the children. The two voices in the back of her head were arguing this morning it seemed; she had grown accustomed to their arguing, singing, or simple talk during the last few centuries and was likely to miss them greatly if they disappeared.

Rina sat back looking out on the buildings of the still feudal Rukongai, pulling the blanket closer over her narrow shoulders, she skipped food for the reiryuko children’s sake during the ongoing famine, and it was showing. Even clean water was hard to come by with the river drying out. A small whimper behind her made her realize that one of the littlest was awake, she smiled as she rose and went to the adjoining room, picked the babe up and put him to her shoulder. The babe was one of the reiryuko, so small and still so very strong, Rina was well-aware that she would need to act with this child soon or he would perish as four of his siblings already had.

After the breakfast she could provide she would go to the Seireitei with the boy and three of the older children and beg the Shinigami to place them in families with more means than her orphanage. She had ventured to the Centre of Soul Society a few times in the past, guiding the strongest of the reiryuko children to the Academy. However, these were small; all looking under five years of age and it made it harder. The infant was worst of them all, his dark locks and those sea foam eyes that bore straight into her soul, but leaving them with the Seireitei would mayhap save them. She had no funds to keep them alive, if there were not for the adults who lacked reiryuko she feared that the orphanage would have closed.

What about your physical stuff? Besides speed and stamina. There is still physcal strength and durability. One of those I would like to see in weakness because all you have is stamina there.

Hakyuukouka, just for clarification purposes, how does this attack? By sound, energy, light, a combination? Hearing and sight are only impaired for a post, right? I still want a one post cooldown, just so you can't use it every turn and screw them up the entire battle. This way, they'll at least have a break.

Tsutakazura Karamasu, how strong must a person be to get out of it? Or compare it with a kido spell.

What about speed on Bakufuu? Is it also like that of a bala?

The kido boost, is that the strength of the kido?

Just some clarifications is all. I do recommend a harder hitting attack ability, however. Though not necessary.

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Keep in mind that your highest leveled spells may still require incantations for them to work.

And with that, I think you are good. Just need a second approval

Tier: 2-2

Just be aware of the Post Limits.

approved.