Yuzuki Ketsura

Yuzu

Two hundred and twenty

Seventeen

Tenth

Lieutenant

KINGDOM HEARTS -- AQUA

Five feet, seven inches

One hundred and twenty pounds

Yuzuki sports dark blue hair, once black but has long since been dyed. Her hair is cropped short in the front, a little longer on the sides and a bit more in the back, down to her neck. The bangs of her hair frame her face on either side. Her eyes are the same shade of blue, if not a little lighter.

She has a lean, athletic build. It comes from both who she was in life and her continued training in the afterlife. Her leg muscles are more toned that her upper body, as they are the primary muscles of which she uses. Her body is rather flawless, being void of any scarring whatsoever. Her skin itself is a pale white despite her exposure to any amount of sun.

She dons the usual shinigami shihakusho with a few modifications. Both her shitagi and kosode are sleeveless. Then instead of tradtional tabi, she has a pair of dark blue thigh-high stockings which mimic tabi as the big toe and rest of the foot is separated. As an addition, she has fingerless gloves that reach up to just below her elbows. Another add-on would be the skin tight garment she wears under the shihakusho. It too is dark blue in color and covers her neck, chest and has short sleeves. Finally, her Lieutenant's Badge is worn around her waist in conjunction with her sash.

♡ Training
♡ Reading
♡ Tea
♡ Cool breezes
♡ Apples

❤ Losing a fight
❤ Hot, humid air
❤ Hollows which includes Visored and Arrancar
❤ Being woken up by someone
❤ Jin

- Impatient
- Reckless
- Combative
- Sarcastic
- Arrogant

+ Brave
+ Persistent
+ Ambitious
+ Loyal
+ Friendly

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name: Kazeikusa "Wind War"

sealed form: Yuzuki's zanpakuto takes the form of a wakizashi. It's similar to a katana as it has the slight curve and only one sharp edge but being considerably shorter. The blade is silvery and around eighteen inches long with the hilt being about seven inches. It has a triangle-shaped tsuba, which is a dull gold in color. The weapon's saya is a deep bark brown and has the texture of wood.

spirit: Kazeikusa takes the form of an armored knight with six wings. Kazeikusa identifies itself as a male and has a deep voice like one would have. He is roughly eight feet in height and five feet in width. He is large and bulky, at least armor-wise. The wings too are metallic but are flexible and move with grace that says otherwise. His overall appearance reflects off of Yuzuki's emotions and physical healthiness. Sometimes he is shiny silver with ornamental decorations and other times he is a dull gray with black tarnish and cracked, battered armor. At any time he came detach a wing or two and use them as weapons.

Kazeikusa is the exact opposite of Yuzuki. Where she is impatient, reckless and combative, he is calm, reserved and decisive. He acts like a paragon, always on the side of good and logic. He is strict when training her and berates her as if he were her father. He is the embodiment of what she wants to become but lacks the motivation and willingness to try. However, when it counts, he supports her completely and gives her whatever advice or power she requires.

inner world: Yuzuki's inner world is nothing but a big, blue sky. It stretches on forever in every direction. A large sun shines from above, illuminating everything. There are an abundance of fluffy, white clouds. Some are large like the size of a house and others are small like a two-person platform. The clouds themselves are actually semi-solid and can be stepped on. The wind is always blowing, from minor breezes to something on the hurricane level. It's also dependent on Yuzuki's emotions and physical healthiness.

release command: Rush, Kazeikusa!

description: Kazeikusa prominent form is armoring that encases Yuzuki's right foot and lower leg, not including her thigh. A reversed curved blade rises up from the top of the foot, sliding along the shin and ends with a sharper curve just past the knee. Another smaller curved blade in the shape of a crescent moon resides along her armored calf. Finally, a third even smaller blade curves over the armored foot, around the center. Initially, two small silver metallic wings are on either sides of her ankles but on mental command, they turn white and expand to a slightly larger form, angling a little further off her ankles and leave a faint trail of reiatsu as she moves. The Shikai also gives Yuzuki slight armoring on her other foot and both hands.

Kazeikusa's main ability is creation and manipulation of air currents and waves through the use of the wings. The wind can then be channeled with the use of leg movements. Afterwards, it can be used to fire off projectiles, enhance melee attacks, used defensively or briefly improve Yuzuki's agility.

type: Melee/Wind

techniques:
For: Shikai
Name: Kitauindo "North Wind"
Type: Offensive
Cooldown: Three posts
Cost: High
Range: Long
Description: By building up energy and swinging her leg quickly and hard, Yuzuki can release a large stream of violent air. It's normally invisible but blue reiatsu exists within and around it to label it as unnatural wind. It's a large cyclone that engulfs its victim to slice and dice them while pushing them away. It's possible to only get sideswiped in which case one would be met with blunt force. The sharp winds are focused on the inside of the cyclone with the forceful air current swirling around it. These winds that surround the cyclone are what push the victims caught within and repel invaders from the outside.

For: Shikai
Name: Tenkuuyaiba "Air Blade"
Type: Offensive
Cooldown: One post
Cost: Low
Range: Mid
Description: This technique manifests as a crescent-shaped wave of air. It has faint blue reiatsu throughout it. It hits with sharpness but gets less powerful the further away it is from Yuzuki. Eventually it'll just be a gust of wind, at about five meters, that tries to push. It's used by kicking upwards or downwards.

For: Shikai
Name: Hayaidageki "Swift Strike"
Type: Offensive
Cooldown: One post
Cost: Low
Range: Short
Description: Air surrounds Yuzuki's armored leg and propels it forwards or in whichever direction she is moving it. It is done rather quickly and actually increases the damage of her kick. If done properly, it can push from below her foot as if she was aiming to hit someone with her knee, in which case it can force her into the air without jumping.

For: Shikai
Name: Rasentama "Spiral Shell"
Type: Defensive
Cooldown: Two posts
Cost: Moderate
Range: Short
Description: Spinning the armored leg fast enough can create spiraling air currents that can redirect attacks of both physical and spiritual elements. Yuzuki can either spin on one foot like a ballerina or get down on her hands and thrust her feet into the air as she spins her body around. Having at least 1 higher HAK or SEI than Yuzuki's SEI will render her shield useless.

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Yuzuki doesn't remember much of her early life, if at all. She was supposedly abandoned as a child and wandered the streets until she was found and taken to a shelter. It was there that she was given a name, Yuzuki Ketsura, and adopted as the daughter of the couple that ran the shelter. Young Yuzuki was quiet and emotionless for the first few years with her new family. Some said it was the traumatic experience of being abandoned in a rough neighborhood. It was unclear how long she was alone as she hadn't spoken since she was saved.

It wasn't until she started school that she started to open up. Yuzuki had a fear of adults, taller and larger humans reminded her of her biological parents whom frightened her. Being around kids of age and size with her was much easier for her to cope with. It wasn't much at first but over time she relaxed her guard and immersed herself into life.

She had a good life growing up. At home, she had many friends that lived at the shelter then more at school. Despite her progress, any subject that hinted at her early childhood shut her up immediately and closed herself off. Her parents and the teachers at the school were aware of this and prevented situations such as that. It wasn't until she was older that she could talk about it. However, her mind subconsciously locked away the traumatic memories and she couldn't remember what had happened to save her life, if put in such a situation.

So she went on to live normally, no longer weighed down by her past. As she got older, Yuzuki expressed an interest in sports, primarily in track and field. For awhile there, her grades slipped as she was more focused on athletics than academics. Because of this, she was forced to drop her extracurricular activities until she could get her grades back up. With the help of friends, she was able to reach the prerequisites and reintegrate herself into her chosen sports.

Yuzuki got pretty good at running track and pole vaulting. Her legs developed pretty well, better than most of the guys in her school. She was able to run fast and jump high. it was around this time while her body was maturing that something within her was maturing. Strange things happened around her, things that people attributes to back luck and superstition. Yuzuki herself wasn't so sure, it all seemed vaguely familiar to her. Of course, with the answer locked away in her subconscious, she had no idea what was going on.

One day on her way to school, something caused the driver of a truck to swerve and run into her. She was killed immediately. Yuzuki barely felt a moment of pain before it was all over. She awoke in the same spot of the accident only it was mostly cleaned up. That part of the street, sidewalk and ruined building were cordoned off until repairs were made. She was frightened due to the turn of events and ran home. It scared her further that neither of her parents could see or hear her. It was then that the floodgate in her mind broke and all those forgotten memories came flooding back.

While she was having a nervous breakdown, the image of a ghastly creature killing her parents haunted her mind. She didn't know why this was happening to her, or why now of all times. She sat alone in her room, crying to herself. All around her was her stuff she had when she was alive, her parents had left it alone. Alone, that's what she was, just like before. Alone. Very Alone. As she contemplated her predicament, a terrifying roar reverberated throughout her room. Though it scared her back to her unwanted reality, it brought on another lost memory. That scream was familiar and she fled her old house to get away.

Yuzuki ran for what felt like eternity, but it was really only minutes. The monstrous creature found her huddling in an alley, coincidentally the same one where her parents were killed. The white-masked thing moved towards her and she screamed, trying to hide further amongst the shadows. It was futile, she knew but she wasn't about to give up on her life. With new found vigor, Yuzuki launched herself forwards to attack the creature. Her tackle was like a fly bite to it and it threw her back, which knocked the wind and resistance out of her. So as she laid upon her back, staring aimlessly up at the sky, the monster closed in to devour her...

Only the next death never came. The horrific sound she was hearing wasn't its roar, but a scream of agony. Yuzuki struggled to raise her head to witness a black-clad figure decimating the monster. Suddenly it took a hit to its face and vanished. The last thing she saw was the person approaching her and raising its weapon. The next thing she knew, she was waking up in a strange new world. Someone was there immediately to give her a ticket, which she found even stranger. She was then sent somewhere, which would where she'd live from then on out.

Fast forward plenty of years, as nothing that important happened. Yuzuki had found yet another family to live with. They were all people that had died and moved on to the afterlife. There were times where Yuzuki had to defend her family. Her mind didn't remember but her body did, somewhat. Even though she never learned to fight when living, her body had been physically trained to compete in sports and so she retained a resemblance of that in death. Only because of her of dormant spiritual power when she was alive. Needless to say, she won slightly more fights than she lost.

It was then that she wanted to get stronger. She could only protect them for so long. Eventually the district's bullies would overcome her. So instead of waiting for them to come to her, she went out and hunted them one by one. Yuzuki found it easier to fight them one on one rather than a group. Slowly but surely, she was getting used to fighting. This also began to build up her spiritual power, the one she lost in life, that she never really had. If she wanted to further this, she would need to apply to the Shin'ō Academy.

She took the exam with a bunch of others that dreamed of becoming a Shinigami. However she failed it. It depressed her greatly but was only down in the dumps for a few days. She tried again the follow year and passed it, not with flying colors, but good enough. Upon admittance, she was given a sword called an Asauchi along with her academy uniform.

Over the next six years, Yuzuki made new friends, became learned in the history of the Academy, the Seireitei and its divisions. At the same time, she was educated and training in the four core combat skills. It was foreign to her at first, insofar as organized training but she soon found herself excelling at Hakuda with a minor in Hoho. The speed was a reminiscent of her life when she was living while the skill in unarmed combat was from years or protecting her family in the Rukongai from bullies. She graduated along with her friends after the six-year term.

After graduation, Yuzuki opted to join the Gotei 13. She was accepted and moved into the Tenth Division, gaining a lower seated position. She had mild spiritual power but she excelled in speed and physical combat, which put her above the other Shinigami that were under her. Yuzuki continued to push herself, challenging her comrades to battle and growing in power. Eventually she proved herself competent to become the division's vice-captain or lieutenant.

Surrounded by a few Hollows, Yuzuki gazed at each one in turn. After she had effortlessly dispatched one of their comrades, the beastly creatures were less inclined to attack wildly. Now they watched her as she watched them. As she slowly moved her foot along the dirt, each Hollow twitched. They were prepared to pounce should she suddenly move. Three against one weren't the best odds but she was a skilled combatant, she could beat them.

Twirling her zanpakuto in her grasp, she held it reversed with the blade aiming backwards rather than forwards. One of the white-masked monsters roared challengingly and she grinned half to herself. It rushed forwards and she ran ahead to meet it. It threw a punch which she pivoted around and leaped upwards. As she did, she struck with her blade, landed on its upraised arm, attacked again then leaped away. It screamed in agony while the other two circled around to flank her.

Upon landing, the other two Hollows rushed in but she ignored them. She instead ran ahead, narrowly escaping the pincer trap and slid under the injured Hollow. As she came out from under it, now also behind, she jumped, performed a twisting flip and impaled her zanpakuto into the monster's head. The thing dissolved as she jumped backwards but not in time to avoid the second Hollow's rushing attack. She took the brunt of it and was thrown at a nearby tree.

The two remaining Hollows advanced on her but she would not be beaten! Yuzuki came to her feet immediately, whipping her sword back around and ran at the nearest. Before it could react, she unleashed a flurry of light slashes at its legs. It annoyed the thing as planned and while it raised a foot to kick her, she moved underneath it and dashed towards the other Hollow. It was in mid-stride towards her and she jumped up at it. Because it was surprised, she was able to thrust her blade into its mask, purifying the creature.

By the time she landed and turned around, the other Hollow had fled. She vaguely saw the bipedal beast amongst the trees surrounding the clearing. She knew she had to give chase but the thing was frightened and injured, as she was tired and injured. Heaving a sigh, Yuzuki sheathed her zanpakuto and turned to walk in the opposite direction. she needed to rest. She would hunt it tomorrow.

AD-0 (Adept Class - 0)

HAN: 8
REI: 8
HAK: 13
SEI: 11
BUK: 8
HOH: 12
Points Earned: 0
Total points: 60

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