Shaku Hachi

The Troll, Mr Ogre

825

40's

Three

Lieutenant

Aoi Bungaku, Sakura no mori no mankai no shita - Mountain Man

7' 9"

350lbs

Shaku is a mass of meat given form. He is large and looks squat for his seven something foot height. his overall appearance reminds one of a large and dimwitted troll.
Starting with the top and heading down, Shaku's head looks like it has taken quite the amount of blows to it. It's slanted forehead sliding into a brow ridge he calls his eyebrows. His eyes are a silent brown, deep and consuming as if you could swim in their depths forever. His nose is hawked and at a slight angle from taking one to many punches. Slight tusks protrude from his bottom lip, just peeking out of his mouth to say hello. His chin juts slightly to compensate for the slightly bigger dental work. Wiry brown hair covers his face and circles around his chin in a full beard, pulled back at the top in a long ponytail.
His neck seems to be almost one with his shoulders has the massive muscle that is him pulls his head into his mass. His arms are the size of most peoples thighs and is solid and rippling muscle. His chest is a barrel, solid and steel in its make. Overall his body is slabs of granite muscle. Random scars criss crossing it at different intervals.
Shaku always wears the traditional uniform of his rank, never deviating from regulations or etiquette of the black Shihakusho.

-Things of a fragile nature or appearance.
-Tasks that demand focus and precision (like the Tea Ceremony).
-Quite soothing music.
-Blossoms on a spring day.
-Things of a beautiful nature.

-Jarring noise or music
-Being called ugly.
-Doing things that take no thought, or are easy.

-Is sometimes rash when people mess with his 'pretty things'.
-Is somewhat stubborn.
-Can be called a stick in the mud at times.

-Is calm and collected.
-Patient and caring.
-Some what the teddy beat type.

Shaku Hachi does not seem to be the sharpest knife in the kitchen, but this trait has lured many an opponent in to underestimating him. His speech is slurred and broken slightly because of his tusks, and this leads him into not always talking if he can help it, or at least keeping his sentences short. Which again gives the presence of stupidity. Shaku has a sharp cunning behind his eyes, and a mind like a steel trap. He is capable of remembering the minute facts, numbers, and details of the many reports coming through the Third Squad.

Shaku Hachi has his massive form and fists.

name: Konigreich der Erde (Kingdom of the Earth)

sealed form: Shaku's zanpakuto takes the shape of two short mark one trench daggers, basically brass knuckles with a blade. The construction of the zanpakuto looks like smoothed obsidian, inky black with an earthy feel to them. They have no ornaments and no distinguishing features between the two of them.

spirit: Konigreich der Erde spirit form looks like two young girls, they are small and seem to be very fragile. Their hair is solid black and shines like a flare on a piece of glass. It's length is down to their feet, and hangs loosely around their heads. Their faces, although almost always covered by their long hair, are painted in the Noh theater style: white with red streaked across as accents. They wear dresses of simple red cloth, tucked and folded in the traditional kimono style, and carry dirty mud covered shovels with them.
They seem to be quite and are always very near each other, to the point of clingy twins not yet wanting to go to school. They always talk in unison when they speak and their voices is quite and solemn, as you would expect at a shrine or funeral. Their personality is one favoring solemnity and tradition, tea ceremony's, and candle night lakes. They are quite in manner and appearance but have the look of ages around them, as if they had seen many horrors and many years.

inner world: The inner world of Shaku Hachi is desolate, barbed wire and ditches blot the landscape. Wooden palisades stand next to concrete bunkers, skeletons of long ago fighters dot the landscape some of them the size of humans some of them giants. His inner world are the battlefields of history. Craters and undetonated shells hug the landscape, sharing it with the clouded sky of night and the skeletons of past soldiers. Weapons from feudal Japan, Rome, Hamurappa, and modern day are clutched in the hands of the dead.

release command: Verwassern der stein. (stone to water/dilute the earth).

description: The blades of Konigreich der Erde grow in length until they are about a foot and a half long, and jut out from the blade of his palm, the side opposite the thumb. Four more blades then grow with it, two on each side, from the middle of his forearm and just above his elbow, each one smaller than the earlier as the elbow blade is only six inches long, making the middle one only a foot. The knuckle braces are still there, but have turned and old motley iron colour.
Konigreich der Erde confers upon Shaku limited earth manipulation while in this form. Such things as spending his spirit energy to create small walls, or swimming through the earth like swimming through a mire. The more earth the Shaku moves in this form the more and more energy he depletes until Konigreich returns to it's original form. A sure fire way in which to gauge the amount of energy spent is the blades upon his arm, as he spends more energy the blades recede until they are back in the mark one trench knife form, lastly changing the colour of the knuckle guard back to black.

type: Beisetzung: earth, funeral, burial, an ending.

techniques:
For: Shikai
Name: Grabstätte aus Stein (burial of stone)
Type: Offensive
Cost: mildly Taxing
Range: Short to Mid
Description: Shaku Hachi needs to be in contact with the earth for Grabstätte aus Stein to work. Taking a breath he slams his hands together forcing an open stone coffin to shoot from the ground and close around it's target. He then spreads his hands out from his body and exhales, shoving the coffin back into the earth about six feet under. All of this happens in a few seconds (about one post per action, two in total). Once buried the occupant can spend his energy to burst from the coffin, the better reiatsu control they have the easier this will be.

For: Shikai
Name: Massengrab (mass burial)
Type: Offensive
Cost: Very taxing
Range: Short to mid
Description: Shaku Hachi has to be in contact with the earth for this ability to work. He pulls his energy into his center cupping his hands together with their palms touching and the blades facing out. He then pushes the energy out trough his feet and shouts out Massengrab. Hundreds of stone coffins then burst from the ground around Shaku each one trying to close around a victim. The coffins try to swallow everyone in range, about 50 yard radius, The coffins will all try to swallow that one person, wrapping him in multiple layers of stone. The coffins stay above ground unless Shaku still has enough energy to push them back under, only six feet deep in the earth. As with the other burial sufficient expenditure of reiatsu may break the coffins open.

For: Shikai
Name: Bewegen Toten (moving dead)
Type: Defensive
Cost: not very taxing
Range: mid
Description: Shaku has to be touching earth for this technique to work. Shaku stands still and mutters the name of the technique, Bewegen Toten, a stone coffin then springs up and swallows him pulling him back into the earth and caring him a distance away, up to two hundred yards, and bursts back up from the earth opening and releasing him. He can also use the coffin as a sort of defensive barrier.

Does not know his Bankai at this time.

name: n/a

description: n/a

type: n/a

stat upgrades: n/a

techniques: n/a

Born near the end of the Heian Period of classical Japan, Shaku Hachi came into a world of violence and blood. Fighting as a dog of war for the rise of the Kamakura Shogunate Shaku went through the world bathed in the blood of his lords enemies. The large man lived a brutal life of battlefields and mass burials. A brute with no opportunities to be anything other than a Minamoto attack dog, his life was short lived. Shaku's death went much as expected and much as he had lived, on the battlefield.
After his death Shaku awoke in the Rukongai East District 79. The lawless mess of souls and slums were the ideal world for the giant man of violence. Shaku went back to the business of being a brute, an attack dog for hire, a mastiff for masters. It wasn't the same this time though, there was no higher purpose to the fighting, no idealism. Confused at the change of the world and the complete lack of true focus Shaku went off to the outskirts to find him self. Shaku learned to hide his massive form and sneak past the many hollows on the edge. He lived a monastic life for many years, living out in the words and contemplating himself and his new inability to fight at his old level. Many years past while in his self exile which ended when Shaku came upon a young spirit being terrorized by a small group of Hollows. Over come with the desire to protect this small fragile person he uprooted a tree to use as an improvised club. The hollows only laughed at his inability to fight them off. This enraged Shaku to new heights. His desire to protect pulled his manifestation of his Zanpakuto. Killing the monsters with the blade he was filled once again with purpose.
Shaku then marched straight through the Rukongai and up to the gates of the Sereitei. Using the skills he learned in the forest outskirts Shaku hid outside until the gates were opened to allow a small group of shinigami out to train in the outskirts. Seizing his chance he went through the gate and snuck into the complex and up to the central building. Appearing to the first person who looked important Shaku demanded entrance into the Gotei 13, this so happened to be Genryuusai Yamamoto Shigekuni. Yamamoto was impressed by the brazenness and stealthy skills of Shaku, seeing in him the flame of idealism, and agreed. Shaku was placed in the bottom rank of Squad Three.
For many years Shaku worked and strove to do his best in the Counter Intelligence squad, using his years in the outskirts hiding his reiatsu from hollows to his advantage. With the new options and opportunities open to him, Shaku worked his brain as much as his brawn, never wanting to return to his time as a simple dog of war. Shaku gained a high grasp of etiquette, tradition, and bureaucracy; falling in love with complex and thought provoking tasks. Slowly Shaku rose ever higher in the ranks, learning and growing the entire time until now where he has reached the rank of Lieutenant of Squad Three.

"No, no, no and yet again no!!" Dimitri couldn't help but shake his head and let out an exasperated sighs as he listened to the fool on the other end of the line."But Mr.Amato I- Now Dimitri knew he should have listened to the poor mans excuses but in all honesty once you've heard one man plead his case, you've heard them all. The only thing that changed where the circumstance, and he was more then intimately with this particular set of circumstance."I can understand what your saying Carlo, That still doesn't change the fact that you BROKE the law! And whats more you let someone see you do it" He moved his hand to the bridge of his nose and rubbed, letting his eyes drift closed he leaned back in his fine leather chair."Now im good, but even i cant get you out of this with a reliable eye witness testifying against you. Now if said witness was no longer a problem well im sure i could work something out, but she isn't likely to up and vanish now is she?" He paused for a second hoping what he said would actually manage to sink in. IT seemed like it had."Of course not sir, Thank you."
His eyes snapped open and a small smile came to his mouth as he gazed around his small office if homey office. Everything from his window drapes to his seats and desk coverings where done in white with purple and gold trim and highlights."No need to thank me Carlo i haven't done anything." He hung up his phone and set it on his desk then gazed out his window at the clear blue sky."Youd think blackmailing witnesses would be an old trick by now..." Ahh well if people knew all the answers he would be out of a job.
It was at times like this that Dimitri liked to mull over the coming day and the business he would have to attend to. Soon he knew Marco would call for him as he did most mornings to go over the days agenda, after that well...Today was mostly free baring any unforeseen circumstances. What to do...what to do?
He glanced up at his old fashioned cuckoo clock just as the little bird peeped out from behind its wooden shutters and smiled. It always brought back good memory's and that was the main reason he kept the obtrusive thing around. One must always find some reason to smile at work sonny boy was one of the many old sayings his father had drilled into him, along with anything worth doing is worth doing right or never trust a skinny bartender. That last one turned out to be true."She was such a pretty gal..." and she had been, long legs, pale smooth skin, soft hair and an ass that you could just die for....But the knife had kinda ruined it for him.
Knock, knock,knock
With a small laugh he stood straitened his tie and patted his hat into place. He glanced his coat hook and contemplated for about a second then decided against taking it.
Knock, knock,knock!
This time the knocking was more persistent and Dimitri couldn't help but sigh.Im coming, im coming." He opens the door and nods to the man waiting outside for him."Dimitri the Boss wants to see ya." He only nods before striding from his office, the much taller man having to hurry a little to keep up with Dimitris short quick strides."So hows your family doing? Good i hope?" He really didn't pay attention to what the other man had to say after that, just made the nods and sounds of appreciation and asked a question or two but everything else was in one ear and out the other.
He neared the Dons door and slowed a little and nodded his thanks to his escort. before knocking lightly and opening the door. He glanced around the room and nodded to both men that currently occupied it."Marco, Masi" He takes a seat infront of Marcos desk and removes his hat."Whats on todays docket gentlemen? Or are we waiting on your son boss?"

AD-0

HAN: 13
REI: 9
HAK: 8
SEI: 13
BUK: 9
HOH: 8
Points Earned: 0
Total points: 60

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