Allister Vane

The tinkering idiot

753

Early to Mid twenties

Research/Development

Captain

Barnaby Brooks jr; Tiger & Bunny

5' 11''

165 lbs

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Inventing
Inventing gives Allister something to do in his spare time, allowing him to change the face of all existence with something as simple as a piece of glass hinged to an iron frame. Often times it's the simpler items that provide the most joy from creating, as they take nothing more than 5 minutes of thought, a few moments of work, and result in years of random uses and praise.

Humans
Being one of the many shinigami who weren't born as spirit bodies, and instead lived a mortal life before death, Allister has quite a large soft spot for the fleshy beings. After all, they marvel at his inventions the most, often prompting him to create things specifically to give them, as if he were Prometheus gifting them with fire itself. Despite their rather rash and stupid nature, he often finds the purer ones to be more just than even the highest ranking shinigami, and takes interest in merely observing them. Not to mention the fact that human women are much more "pleasant" and "easygoing".

Playing the fool/Simplistic people
Despite being what many would consider a "great mind", Allister often prefers to be taken lightly, and looked upon as a fool. Not only does it give him more space to relax and simply "be", but it cuts down on people asking him for trivial things, or expecting too much from him, as he often saves his higher tier of inventions for tight squeezes. Simply put, it's plain out more fun to be taken as a complete buffoon.

Just as he enjoys maintaining a rouse that he himself is simple, Allister prefers to associate with simple people more. They don't ask a million questions, they don't hesitate to act, and they don't make coexisting difficult by trying to force their intellectual superiority on everyone else. They're happy with just being as they are and getting things done, and they make for quite a humorous conversation to boot.

Music
It gets the creative juices flowing, and allows him to tune out anyone who would want to pester him with trivialities he's not quite interested in. Most of the music he's into are modern age groups or artists that no one would expect a "scientist" to be into, but he prefers to keep it that way. A favorite of his happens to be the group Atmosphere, for their ability to portray unorthodox settings with words, and the frontman's infatuation with the idea that the Devil and Lord are both females.

Almost everything
It speaks for itself. Allister is a very jovial and upbeat type of person, and it'd be simpler to list what he didn't like, rather than list what he did. As long as he can find some fun in doing it, he likely enjoys it. Unless it's paperwork. Fuck paperwork.

Food/Cookies
Cookies are the best invention of all time, or so Allister likes to think. Unfortunately he never got to meet the mad genius who invented such a delightful snack, or he'd probably have groveled before him like some sort of creep. Anyhow, the 12th division captain has something of a food fetish, almost always eating something at any given time. He even tends to cook in his spare time, as new recipes are almost the same as inventing anyhow.

Dicking around in the human world
Playing video games, hitting on girls, getting drunk, humans have it all. They're not forced to worry about dealing with hollows or the balance of the world. They even get sweet cars that go vroom vroom. Seriously, though, whenever an opportunity arises to enter the human world in a gigai and shirk off doing random shit, Allister's gonna be there doing just that.

Arrogance without purpose
While he enjoys pride and confidence in one's doings, Allister detests purposeless arrogance. Those who act superior without proving their higher worth, or those who make their entire existence about being better than other people get under his skin more than most. Being raised as a noble in his human life taught him that those who put themselves above others for something based on mere chance, like birthright, are generally the worst kinds of people.

Serious Work
While tinkering and inventing are among many of his favorite pastimes, the 12th division captain doesn't enjoy taking any one thing too seriously, or putting pressure on himself to view his creations as a real "job". Even when dealing with the occasional hollow or arrancar encounter, he tries to have some fun with it. After all, if you take any one thing too seriously, you ruin all possibilities of actually enjoying yourself, and the result is your production suffers greatly.

Organization
Chaos is your friend. It's amidst chaos that all genius occurs, and creativity is born. After all, inventions are born out of necessity, and chaos breeds necessity in the thousands. Organization merely hinders the creative juices, and takes time away from something more important. However, do not confuse his distaste for organization as a hate for peace, because chaos and peace can exist within the same space.

Formality
Calling him captain repetitively is likely going to trigger a nerve when it comes to Allister. He knows he's the captain of the 12th division, and he was never sure why he needed to be reminded this hundreds of times a day. He likes to assume names are given at birth for a reason, not to be tossed aside for pompous titles to cushion certain egos, such as the commander general's, who seems to hate being addressed as Yamamoto, or Byakuya's.

The idea that hollows are bad
The way Allister sees it, hollows are a necessary trouble. They keep the balance of the world's life cycle, by killing humans and such of course, and give shinigami something to do. Some are even helpful in certain situations, and can make good research subjects. Not to mention the more dastardly ones tend to pay good bounties that can be used on booze in the human world and such.

Being caged/controlled
Despite being in service and technically working for the Gotei 13, Allister is the first to let anyone know that he has both a mind and will of his own, and doesn't fear the consequences of acting on his own whims. Not one to take orders unless he feels the outcome benefits him, this trait often causes him to butt heads with the other captains or high ranking members within the Gotei 13, as he has no real respect for hierarchy or seniority alike.

Laziness
Despite being a dedicated tinkerer and not minding physical exertion in the slightest, Allister can often be quite lazy. It's not that he's not a motivated individual, he just doesn't see the purpose in doing certain things, namely paperwork. If it's something he simply doesn't care about the outcome of should he not do it, then he usually won't do it, even if it means constant threats to be removed as captain of the research and development squad.

Stubborn
Intelligence seems to go hand in hand with stubbornness, among all races. When someone is so sure they're correct that they're willing to physically fight over it, they may be a little stubborn. Despite being somewhat humble when it comes to the way his mind works, when Allister sets his mind on a concept, it's near impossible to convince him otherwise in any form. The same guideline goes when it's concerning combat or anything else, really. Convincing him against something he's sure of likely isn't going to happen, but it does amuse him to watch the few fools who try fail.

Carefree/Lighthearted/Irresponsible
While this could be considered a positive trait, it's also in itself a negative one. Most captains tend to be serious role models who get the job done with a straight face efficiently each time, and can enter the human world without fucking around constantly. For Allister, such is not the case. While he usually gets the job done just as well as anyone else, his actions during said process can leave much to be questioned, as he often spends most of the time making jokes, rather than doing the task he was assigned. Even in combat, he often appears to let his guard down, because he's too busy taunting or kidding around, or occasionally flat out too relaxed to bother retaliating in a fight until he realizes lives may be on the line.

Likes to invent completely useless things
Despite having a knack for creating useful things, Allister often invests his time in worthless endeavors that are only good for a mere joke. It's rumoured the first legitimate whoopie cushion was a fabrication of his own, but no one's quite sure. This would obviously detract from the amount of useful things he makes for soul society itself, but he doesn't seem to care too much.

Tendency to break rules
Allister's not a conventional man, and he doesn't enjoy being told what he may and may not do. In his mind, breaking rules is how the best inventions have come about, and it doesn't matter if he's not caught or the repercussion's aren't serious. Still, it's a trouble to most of those around him who often end up taking blame for not forcing him to cease silly actions such as ditching to earth without a limiter or an assigned task and such.

Blunt
He's not going to hesitate to say exactly what he thinks, even if it may not seem like the nicest thing at the particular moment. While he doesn't often have many mean things to say about someone, or a certain situation, if he does have something along those lines to say, he likely will.

Distant
Having never understood the principle of family or close loved ones, Allister can be somewhat of a recluse, and tends to keep personal details away from others by any means necessary. While not opposed to having casual chit chats and being acquaintances with many, getting close to him, or earning his care on a level that passes the humanitarian one, is a feat.

Intelligent
Obviously one can't be a complete idiot and be assigned as a captain in the Gotei 13, much less a captain of the squad assigned with providing the entire society with new creations and tools. Allister's intelligence surpasses all expectations had of him, despite his tendency to play it off as if he were a simpleton. Even as a human his brain seemed to be naturally inclined towards more advanced concept and thought processes, though it had difficulty understanding more menial and simpler things. However, that difficulty was erased when he learned how to relax and let his mind wander.

Loves puns
Not much to be said about this, those who loves puns are the best types of people.

Benevolent
While not overly friendly in an "I wanna hug you" sense, the captain of the twelfth division is still somewhat kind. It's not out of the question for him to do favors for certain people (though he often does request payment of some kind), and he does tend to invent things solely as gifts to specific people, or a specific group of people. He tends to go out of his way to defend specific people, especially if he's compassionate or shows sympathy towards them for whatever specific reason. However, don't expect him to be the guy who lets you live after you destroy half of soul society, he's not kind to the point of being a complete fool/wimp.

Pseudo-Chivalry
Ingrained in him from his days of Knighthood, Allister has something comparable to a code of honor. While not always the most upstart guy, he tends to go out of his way to make sure those he views as allies are well off, and seems to have an issue with allowing women to be unnecessarily harmed. While he often plays it off as him keeping someone safe for self gain, such as requesting payment at a later date or similar, it's usually simply reflexive, and he tends to do so without thinking at all.

Did I mention he enjoys cookies? No, really, I'll probably add more to this at a later date~

Various gadgets, most notably his sealing cuffs, that allow him to store various random things within his sleeve cuffs, including his Zanpakuto itself.

name: Heiwa No Kouzui; Flooding Peace

sealed form: Simply a plain Wakizashi that measures 16 inches in length, with a sky blue sheathe and a black blade. The Tsuba is no different from any average Wakizashi's, and the blade has light blue droplets of water seemingly etched across it's short length.

spirit: Heiwa No Kouzui is a female resembling a young girl, seemingly no older than 15 at the most. With light blue hair that barely reaches her neck and parts in the front, and thin facial features, accompanied by a nose ring and dark purple eyes, she would stand out in a crowd. Too bad Toju can't really be in crowds at all.

Draped in a long, ethereal kimono that's doesn't cover much due to being near transparent, she has a thin build, and is rather unimposing due to her 4' 10'' height. As she walks about her own world, she seems to hover across the land, her legs never appearing to move as she goes from one place to the next.

A calm and wise Zanpakuto spirit, Heiwa No Kouzui can often surprise even Allister with her intelligence. Despite the fact that she seemingly knows everything, she's similar to most female Zanpakuto spirits with male wielders in the regard that she's fickle and manipulative, and loves to see him squirm. Rarely cooperating outside of combat, she tends to bombard him with annoying questions they both know the answer to, and simply do anything she can to get on his nerves. Despite her tendency to fuck with his head, she is quite loyal to Allister when it comes to combat, and often works with him quite willingly, unless it's something she's completely opposed to.

A spirit with a mind of her own, she's been known to refuse Allister power on several occasions when he's fighting a battle that could have been avoided, or one that furthers nothing. Seemingly a follower of the "zen" type of mindset, she's not particularly a combat loving spirit in the first place, as she believes water is meant to aid, and should only be used to extinguish the fires of life when it begins to spread and burn others.

Something of a hypocrite, she's like most females. Her personality is whatever she feels like being at the current moment, and her principles can change on a whim if she feels like it. After all, women don't need to justify themselves. Ever.

inner world:A beautiful underwater world filled with sea creatures and all sorts of oceanic life, this world is a dream for all marine biologists everywhere. The water allows breathing freely beneath it, and the pressure couldn't kill a fly even at the deepest depths. If one were to swim above the surface of the seemingly endless expanse of water, they'd find a seemingly endless tropical island, accompanied by fruit trees and even more animal wildlife. This naturistic paradise represents Allister's Zanpakuto's respect for life.

release command: Heiwa no kouzui, Ameshimasu; Rain upon them, Flooding peace

description:

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Rather than maintaining a solid form, Heiwa No Kouzui changes entire states when entering shikai, becoming completely liquid and fading to a clear blue. Even the handle becomes an amorphous liquid, that somehow maintains shape when held by Allister, and can be shaped freely or made more condensed at will. When entering shikai, it grows from 16 inches to about 26, though it rarely stays that exact length.

type: Water

techniques:

For: Shikai
Name: Gently flowing stream
Type: Passive
Cooldown: None
Cost: Varies
Range: Close
Description: The base and premiere ability of Heiwa No Kouzui's shikai form, Gently flowing stream shows that water is prone to change, and easy to direct. Rather than being one constant shape or form, Heiwa No Kouzui can change shapes and be manipulated freely in shikai, as it is a blade made entirely of water. It can take on the shape of other weapons and objects, and even be solidified and hardened into a non ice water based substance using Allister's reiatsu, making it somewhat of a swiss army knife knife among weapons.

Items that would take a large amount of water can be created even if the blade itself isn't comprised of that amount of water simply by Allister paying a higher cost to create said water from the hilt of the blade, though creating anything too large would be both unwieldy and costly at the same time.

For:Shikai
Name: Roaring torrent
Type: Offensive/Water/Kido
Cooldown: 2 posts
Cost: Low
Range: Medium-Long
Description: Combining the control and production of water the shikai form grants, Roaring torrent is a ranged attack based on spiritual power. Swinging Heiwa No Kouzui's released form in an arcing motion, Allister can produce a large (10x10ft) wave of "solidified" water to be used as a projectile, that can be somewhat freely directed and controlled at a range.

For:Shikai
Name: Aqua Aegis
Type: Water/Defensive
Cooldown: 3 posts
Cost: Medium
Range: Close
Description: A defensive technique that utilizes the same principle as roaring torrent, Allister simply slashes an area in front of him quickly, creating a large wave that then shapes itself into a partial barrier. It only covers an area of 180 degrees, meaning placement is crucial, or it won't protect against jack squat, though it can be manipulated to shift positions. This shield lasts for one post and can take any hits in that post from attacks based on Hak/Sei that don't exceed Allister's own Sei.

For: Shikai
Name: Nejirei Suiatsu; Twisting water pressure
Type: Water/Offense
Cooldown: None.
Cost: Low
Range: Melee/Close
Description: When striking an opponent, Allister releases a burst of water similar to the other techniques his shikai makes use of, but instead of taking the shape of a wave, the burst simply explodes on impact with the blade, increasing the force of the strike as well as creating more water to be used in conjunction with future techniques. Though of course this would trade any chances of cutting with a particular strike for sheer pressure damage. This technique is often used for consecutive strikes against foes who have resistances to being cut or slashed.

note that you cannot start off with bankai unless the character is AV-3 or higher.

name: gouu no kaosu; Torrential Chaos

description: Allister's Zanpakuto explodes into a sphere of water that surrounds him, that then falls to the ground harmlessly, revealing the cap'n himself, draped in a modified aqua blue version of a captain's haori. Gouu No Kaosu's blade and form has faded away, revealing a simple handle reminiscent to a sword from the renaissance period, with a guard over the grip and an aqua blue gem in the base. Rather than having a real blade, the weapon point of the "sword" instead becomes water in the surrounding area, beginning with the water created from activating bankai itself.

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type: Water

stat upgrades: +3 Han, +2 Hoh, +2 Buk, +1 Hak

techniques:

For: Bankai
Name: Control
Type: Passive/Water/Kido
Cooldown: None
Cost: Varies (On amount of water and movements)
Range: Varies (up to long)
Description: Rather than being a normal sword with a defined blade, Gouu No Kaosu's Bankai form is instead something of an ethereal weapon, with the hilt of the blade controlling water itself freely. With motions and swings of the handle, Allister can guide water in the area, shaping it into weapons and the like to attack opponents with. Note that this is just the guideline for what the bankai can do, and all further techniques are based on this principle.

For: Bankai
Name: Liquify
Type: Water/Kido
Cooldown: 3 posts
Cost: Low
Range: Short-Medium
Description: In order to use water, one has to create water, right? Similar to many other water and ice based zanpukatos in a sense, this ability creates water. However it does it in a more unorthodox method than most, as instead of controlling the atmosphere or the air around himself to create water, Allister instead points the handle of Gouu No Kousai towards an object, and turns it into water using his Reishi, or pays more raw Reishi to simply produce it from the hilt itself in a quantity proportionate to how much is paid.

While this can't be used to turn other zanpakutos or offensive attacks (or people, etc.) into water for his own use, since Gouu no Kousai can control most forms of water, this can be used on ice based attacks. Though it's a given that the opposing ice based ability could likely just re-freeze the water and it'd wind up looking like a stale mate.

For: Bankai
Name: Solidify
Type: Water/Kido
Cooldown: 1 post
Cost: Low
Range: Varies (As far as the Control skill reaches)
Description: Another of the more important yet basic abilities of Gouu No Kousai, solidify's name is rather obvious. It allows Allister to target water and solidify it into a substance that's density and hardness (when considered for damage) depends on his Sei stat, but is comparable to metal, in that it can both cut and crush depending on how the water is shaped. Despite being a solidified form of water, this substance isn't anything like Ice, and is a result of an amount of Allister's Reiatsu being channeled through the water he manipulates.

For: Bankai
Name: Torrential Flurry
Type: Water/Offensive
Cooldown: 6 posts
Cost: High
Range: Long
Description: Requiring a large amount of water in the area to be present, Allister manipulates it individually into the sky as droplets over the course of a post (meaning there's a post of prep time), often attempting to do so without the opponent noticing what's going on. After masking the water with the clouds, Allister then solidifies it, and shapes each droplet into a small, rounded needle, allowing it all to fall across a large radius, attempting to puncture foes to death.

Status of birth/Accomplishments of life

Born in western Europe 1250 A.D. to a noble family, Allister had seemingly been given the best gift anyone could have ever been given in his time period. He'd been born with Vane blood, meaning his life would be filled with ease, wealth, and power. His father a Knight who'd worked his way into nobility by being clever and manipulative enough to survive his days of service and marry a wealthy heiress, and his mother. The wealthy heiress herself, who'd never lived a day outside a sheltered world and didn't know what need was.

His birth was to be celebrated by all under his father's rule. After all, another Vane male meant more knights in the service, and Vane knights seemingly always had great success, partially due to the family's apparent lack of morals and large amount of wealthy and powerful connections within Europe. Unfortunately, the people of his father's small kingdom loathed the entirety of the Vane family, meaning Allister's birth wasn't welcomed by many, even if they were all too afraid to express such feelings.

Coupled with rigorous training at a young age to prepare him enter the service, beginning at age seven as a paige, and the loathing of all around him for reasons he was too young to understand, Allister learned to be openminded and patient at a young age, which would serve him quite well later on in life. His early training as a paige went smoothly, allowing him to progress towards becoming a squire much faster than the average period of seven years it takes for most.

Though a large amount of that can be attributed to his father and grandfather allowing him to cut corners, and advanced tutors being hired for him like the fortunate child he was. His training often hit a few bumps and snares when he'd seemingly disappear for days at a time starting at the age of fourteen, only to be found in one of the nearby towns shirking his duties, or designing some strange contraption. In situations like these, his father often sent other knights after Allister to find and escort him back to the Vane estate, only furthering his distaste for being "caged".

When he was finally, reluctantly knighted at the age of seventeen, four years earlier than usual, Allister made his entrance into the outside world a theatrical and preposterously shocking one. In response to whether or not he planned to go into service as a representative of the Vanes, he abruptly told his parents that they deserved none of their wealth and power, and he'd rather work for himself. Of course, this didn't sit well at all with the two, as they weren't used to being openly disrespected, and eventually became enraged and ordered he be restrained by several of his father's men.

Narrowly escaping thanks to years of tinkering with doors and passageways within his home castle, Allister eventually migrated to eastern Europe to continue his career as a knight, and more importantly continue tinkering and designing. Serving under many different banners throughout the next 6 years or so, he took part in war for 3 different countries, changing sides solely based on what part of Europe seemed to provide the most muse at the time. Monetary compensation wasn't a factor, as Knights were paid incredibly well regardless of faction.

During his time shifting countries, Allister credits himself with inventing several items still used today. Most notably the first set of eye glasses, the first mechanical clock, and the spinning wheel. Unfortunately, due to his reluctancy to reveal his true last name and his tendency to continuously change identities, most of his inventions have been claimed by other countries. Such as India seemingly receiving credit for the spinning wheel, Italy for the clock, and a stand still between west europe and east asia for the eyeglass.

Coupled with his various inventions, his actual deeds and works as a knight could have been considered accomplishments as well. Surviving 3 sides of the same war, each one encompassing several battles he was paid to take part in, Allister was often offered noble status, or rewarded with large sums of money, which usually went towards his creations. At one point he was even offered a Duke's daughter's hand in marriage, though he turned the offer down, refusing to marry into wealth. Shortly after, said daughter and father were both assassinated by an opposing party in the war, implying the Duke merely sought protection, or possibly even a scapegoat.

Death

Retiring from Knighthood at the young age of 23 with what he considered enough money to continue the rest of his life without work, Allister at last came to settle in a small, nameless village in the southeastern portion of Spain. Content with simply inventing and keeping to himself, it'd seem the rest of his life would be peaceful and satisfying. but then everything changed when the fire nation attacked Unfortunately for the former soldier, peace was nowhere to be found, and he'd be the victim of something even he was unable to understand.

Whilst out and about testing one of his newer ideas, a form of power akin to electricity, but much less stable (since electricity obviously didn't exist in the human world yet), Allister unknowingly had his first encounter with a being possessing high amounts of Reiryoku, spiritual pressure. Likely a captain or lieutenant without a limiter on, or a vasto lorde level hollow, the power of their pressure instantly laid waste to the small town, causing the power source Allister had been working on to explode violently, taking him with it.

Ah, what a beautifully ironic way to die. A thing he would soon become triggers a reaction in a thing he would soon create, causing him to no longer exist in one world, yet flourish in the next. It's the flow of life and energy at it's finest on display.

Rukongai, Entrance into Seireitei

More intrigued than surprised by the reality of the afterlife, when all was said and done, Allister found himself in the 11th North section of Rukongai, in a relatively peaceful neighborhood. Unfortunately, peace without achievement or understanding didn't satisfy him very much, even though he did happen to drag multiple explanations of the works of things from other Rukongai residents.

Not content with sitting around doing nothing for hundreds of years, and realizing rather quickly that he was one of the few beings in his sector that needed to eat (thus making it incredibly difficult to actually obtain food), Allister needed a way out. Sitting around in a feudal area with houses stacked upon houses and nothing to tinker with wasn't going to cut it for him, lest he go insane and resort to provoking the rowdy and simple residents of the outer rukongai areas.

Eventually, he decided on taking the entrance exam to the shinigami academy. Truth be told, he didn't pay much attention to what shinigami really were, so he walked in kind of blind to the whole thing. He only really saw it as a way to occupy his time, maybe make some spare cash and keep food in his stomach. What really hooked him, though, was the moment he was told shinigami sometimes go to the human world. The place where all creations really happen, the place where simply making fire is still wondrous.

Taking the exam with no preparation beforehand had to be his most genius idea yet. If it weren't for being trained with a sword in his past life, and his relatively quick mind, he'd have instantly failed. However if it weren't for his lazy and lax attitude, he'd likely have passed it with almost perfect marks, instead of getting literally the lowest score required to pass. Instead of diligently making attempts during the exam, he spent a majority of the time trying to glue multiple Asauchis together to make some sort of crazy fan of death.

Due to this, his natural skills were undermined and devalued, and he was placed in the classes with the bottom tier of students, and forced to spend the entire 6 years in the academy like normal people, instead of shortcutting his way through like he had with his training for Knighthood in his first life. Despite showing ease in understanding Kido and spiritual energy manipulation, and having previous skill in swordsmanship, the future captain was still an underachiever, with most of his focus going towards pure creativity, and didn't stand out amongst the lot whatsoever. Though that's how he would have preferred it anyways. During his time at the academy, he invented several devices to make life as a shinigami easier, and others to be used for pranks. Most notably the super mega whoopie cushion, which he used to troll classmates from time to time.

Ermahgerd, I'm a shinigami

Upon final graduation, he was placed as an unseated officer in the 4th division, the squad based on healing, due to his lack of apparent prowess in any field aside from kido. Unbeknownst to anyone else however, he had already attained Shikai sometime during his fifth year at the academy. However he preferred not to engage in combat unless actually necessary, subsequently keeping his natural abilities rather hidden.

The next hundred years were of no real importance, as he simply shirked his duties as an unseated officer of the medical division, never seeing combat even once, and never doing more than simple errands. During this time period, his attention was fixed solely on his creations, and by extension, any creative Kido variations he could come up with. It's sometime after his first one hundred and fifty years or so as an unseated officer that his actual skill and creative uses of various Kido, to either get out of things or annoy fellow unseated officers, was noticed by the then Captain of the Kido corps.

Without much say in the matter, Allister was transferred to be a member of the Kido corps. It paid better than the medical division, and the only real downside was the stupid outfits, so Allister didn't mind all too much. After all, it gave him more time to expand his repertoire of amusing spells and use them to create other things. It was here he remained for around 350 years until around 200 years ago when the war against the quincy took place.

In that time he'd been recognized rather highly as an intelligent and skillful Kido user after having been successful in any task he was asked to fulfill, and had even been able to access the initial stages of his bankai early in his tenure as a Kido corps member (though he kept it hidden, and his Zan's spirit drove him nuts initially). Despite being a testament to his natural ingenuity with kido even without forthright effort, being made an unofficial "3rd seat" to the kido corps didn't seem to change Allister's mindset, or matter at all in the scheme of things. Especially considering the fact that he would yet again be made to swap divisions, when the fight against the quincy began.

Quincy eradication/Temporary Kido Captain/becoming 12th division's captain

Being moved to the 12th division as a 4th seat under the then Captain Kirio Hikifune, Allister would soon be recognized by more than just the kido corps. Despite primarily being moved to the research and development squad in order to help design anti-Quincy equipment to help even the unseated shinigami succeed in the upcoming battles, the future captain found himself enthralled by the concept of the Quincies and how they functioned, as well as the rest of the technology already being produced by his division.

This lead him to not only design several basic devices to help combat the uses of natural reishi and help mask large groups of shinigami, but also to volunteer on the front lines himself, testing his own creations first hand. Many remember the slaying of the Quincies as a brutal and dark time, however Allister remembers it as a time filled with knowledge and interest. After all, when the quincies died it's not like they wouldn't just be reborn as souls within soul society anyways, so there was nothing to feel guilty about.

Taking part in some of the more brutal slaying of the Quincy, it reminded Allister of his days as a knight, when he saw things from all sides. He could understand the Quincies' reasons to be angry, yet he felt no remorse cutting them down to protect the balance of all worlds. After all, if the worlds were destroyed, then he wouldn't be able to make funny gadgets and gizmos. It was during a larger scale battle with a group of Quincies located in his original home region in Europe, that he unfortunately had to reveal his Bankai for all to see.

He and the small squadron he'd been assigned to travel with and test some of the 12th division's new reiryoku channeling items (if successful it would have mimic'd the quincy ability to channel reishi into reiryoku, thus keeping them from being able to when in the vicinity of said device), were ambushed by a large number of Quincy and cut down systematically. Barely surviving thanks to the late intervention of several squad 5 members, with Sosuke Aizen among them, Allister was forced to release his Bankai in order to finish the job quickly and minimize any further casualties. Though at this point he'd yet to fully master and mature his skill with it (primarily due to lack of effort put into any sort of bankai training), it proved to be enough and the surviving shinigami were able to retreat back to the soul society having won temporarily.

With the cat out of the bag, talk of promotions among the Gotei 13 began circulating once the Quincy eradication had ended. It was around this time that the 12th squad captain Kirio Hikifune seemingly disappeared (she was promoted, but top secret and all that). Despite there being an open captain's position and so few choices to fill it, there were no captains among the ranks at that time willing to give Allister a recommendation, much to his relief, due to his seemingly poor attitude and lack of drive. (at this time he didn't want to rise in rank, it seemed like too much work) Instead, Kisuke Urahara became the 12th division's captain for a short period of time, along with Tessai Tsukibishi becoming the new captain of the Kido corps simultaneously.

The next 100 years were rather unproductive ingenuity-wise on his part, as Kisuke was more of a hands on reclusive type, similar to Allister himself, meaning not many of the lower ranked officers in the division got any input on research or development, despite the division's name. Despite being the fourth seat to a division which primarily avoided combat, Allister found himself taking on more combat oriented roles than anything, leading small squadrons to take care of hollows, and occasionally stealing away to the human world for recreational purposes.

Throughout the late 1800's and mid 1900's, Allister took several unauthorized trips to the human world for inventing purposes, as an outlet for creativity, due to lack on input in the 12th division's works. When Kisuke Urahara and several other seated captains were exiled and fled the Seireitei, once again the question of promotion arised. Without enough bankai level shinigami to fill all positions, he actually received recommendations from the new captains this go around, however the 12th division was unfortunately given to Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the only position not filled being that of Tessai Tsukabishi's, the Kido corps captain.

Unable to really refuse, Allister became the Kido corps captain for around 100 years, which suited him well for a while, though it still lacked the creative outlet the 12th division had granted him, and the outfits were still not fun, he was able to be a recluse, at least. While his productivity with inventing slowed down considerably, he took his captain position quite seriously at first, simply because the Kido Corps had always had a lot of responsibilities, and he felt allowing it to fall behind could mean the end of soul society in the case that they're needed. Thankfully his temporary diligence aided in protecting soul society and helping transfer captains to and from the "real" world during the battle with Aizen and his espada.

At some point in time a few years ago, Mayuri Kurotsuchi stepped down or was removed from his captain's position of the 12th division, and Allister was allowed to resign as the Kido corps captain, once again shifting positions to take over the one division he felt he was meant to "lead". Since then, he's become a much more upbeat and active member of the Gotei 13, going out of his way to bug the other divisions and design silly things to make their lives more difficult or amusing. Advancements in the 12th division have actually begun to pick up to near the level they were at when Kisuke Urahara was captain, now that the research was more utility based and not based on the body or strange poisons as it was when Kurotsuchi was in charge.

Current acts as captain

Current personal research is primarily based on figuring out what the hell is going on with hell, and how to counteract the sins. However since interfering in matters with hell and hueco mundo without permission are forbidden, he keeps this under tight wraps, and instead tasks his division's members with helping develop new alternatives to limiters and the like, to protect the human populace without restricting shinigami actions too tightly.

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. The effervescent overhead panels that lit Allister's lab flickered waves of light across the room, illuminating the various devices and inventions he'd tinkered with over the past seven hundred years or so. One of his most notable creations, perhaps one of the more important creations of modern times (hue hue hue that pun), the first mechanical clock, could be heard echoing loudly across the room.

Adjusting his glasses with his left hand's middle finger, while brushing away a stray bit of hair away from the lenses with his index, he smirked, gazing upon his new creation. The super laser toastenator 10,000! A modified toaster-robot hybrid fully equipped with radiation and Reishi based weapons and artificial intelligence, designed specifically for seeking out and eradicating hollows based on their spiritual pressure. Using a power system with a similar concept to that of a Sanrei glove, it scatters Reishi around it, before taking it in rapidly and converting it into Reiryoku, allowing it to harm spiritual bodies.

"Ah, we may never have to bother with hollows in person again... Just wait until the eleventh division sees how obsolete they've become~" The words exited with a minor hum, the tone of his voice representing how pleased with himself he was. After all, it wasn't every day he completed a device that would make the ego driven melee squad question their self worth, and the validity of their practice.

Flipping a switch crudely labeled "Power" with his right hand, the scientist took a step back, examining as the toaster began to rise, floating above his work table which it had been sitting upon. As the toaster suspended itself in mid-air, it began to lightly beep, a square panel on the front flashing several different colors, as if initializing some sort of computer program. After a few moments, the ordinary looking toaster began to shift. It's metallic silver side panels collapsed, as gears and lengths of wire began protruding from four thin slots, each equally spaced apart.

In time, the wires and gears formed what appeared to be arms and legs, each long enough to compensate for it's relatively small size. The square panel that covered the face plate of the toaster had by now ceased flashing, instead showing a pattern of lighted portions that made out what seemed to be eyes and a mouth. The only remaining features resembling a toaster whatsoever, were the slits at the top of it's body, where you'd place the bread to be toasted. Of course, now those were weaponized, and shot out waves of pure reishi that could rip hollows to shreds with each and every loud 'Ding!'.

Breaking the current silence with a monotonic, automated voice, the toastenator 10,000 spoke. "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" Despite it's lack of tone, or any similarities to a genuine voice, it was somehow clear that this toaster wasn't kidding around. "Hmmm, did I forget to wipe your memory drives again? Hold on, let me reset y-" Indicating the fact that he knew the source of the problem, Allister's voice trailed off, as the toastenator 10,000 began glowing a bright red, and charged towards his creator with malice in his little digital eyes.

"Soon, pitiful worms! Soon I will rule, and your lives will have their doneness setting turned to... darkest!" The ticking and tocking of the first clock ever made was easily drowned out as the demented toaster roared promises of pain and toast-y death at it's rightful master. Easily sidestepping it's head on charge, Allister unsealed his Zanpakuto from his sleeve's cuff. Twiddling the small wakizashi around in his right hand's palm calmly, he examined the toaster as the red hue it surrounded itself in began to intensify.

"Ah, I goofed and put the toastenator eight thousand's processor in this one rather than the nine thousand's. I knew I should have just made a new one, oh well. I guess I'll have to shut you down for now." He flashed the toastenator an innocent smile, chuckling a little at his silly mistake. He supposed that's what he got for working so late into the night, running on next to no sleep for the past week.

The face formed from lights on the square panel of the toastenator shifted, forming slanted eyebrows above it's circular dotted eyes that made it look like a frowning face a child would draw. It was ostensibly enraged, visibly opposed to the idea of being shut down. "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the boogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"

Cupping it's minuscule hands together, it focused the glowing red aura into it's wells (the bread slots), and leaned forward in midair, releasing a circular blast of solid red reishi in Allister's direction. Simply raising his left arm, he muttered "Seki", as a small shield created from the spell formed on his wrist, and blocked the toaster's projectile, repelling it back towards the psycho bread burner.

Without enough time to react, the toastenator was hit with it's own blast, and was lofted across the room towards a wall, as a piece of toast embedded in the blast fell to the ground. Upon impact, the entire left side of it's body became encapsulated in the wall, effectively immobilizing it. "Cursed electric heating filament! You are inadequate to my needs! Why? Why? Why was I not built with a death ray?!" The demonic robot toaster screeched, monotonous voice somehow fluctuating to one filled with anguish so tangible, it would pull at Allister's heart strings if he believed it was real.

"You know, technically you were made with a death ray. I guess it just didn't pack enough power. Nonetheless, I have to fix you anyways, so I can enhance that, but let's shut you down...

Ameshimasu." Activating his shikai, he shaped the aquatic blade into an elongated Nodachi. He knew better than to get close to a radioactive toaster of death when it was desperate to destroy all in it's path. As he casually reached out with the blade, using it's point to press the "POWER" switch, the toastenator 10,000 gave one last cry filled with hope and promises of world destruction. "A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!"

Allister laughed lightly as it's voice faded into a light hum, before becoming completely silent once more, the lit up panel on the front that formed it's face now becoming dim. "Yeah, yeah. Maybe someday."

EL-1

HAN: 17 (+3)
REI: 18
HAK: 15 (+1)
SEI: 21
BUK: 16 (+2)
HOH: 18 (+2)
Points Earned: 0
Total points: 105

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