Ariella Artaxerxes

The Curious Kitten

124

20

12

3rd seat

VOCALOID -- SEEU

5'7

143

Ariella is a slightly curvy girl with a decent bust and rounded, healthy hips along with a healthy peach skin tone often highlyed by a happy flush on her cheeks. She has shining blue eyes that never seem to be dull of life and full of curiosity. Her blonde hair makes it hard for her to not be spotted in a crowd. It is pale blonde and full of volume, making larger waves down to just above her knees.At the top of her head she has two small pigtails just behind her modified cat ears. Her bangs are trimmed to stop just above her eyes.

Her uniform is quite different from the normal shinigami uniform. As opposed to more traditional garbs, Arriella wears an orange, sleeveless, vest-like dress shirt with a blue ribbon tied around the black collar at the base of her neck. She wears a black skirt underneath that stops just barely below the start of her thigh. Across the bottom is an orange stripe that runs across it.. A pair of gray socks come up to her thigh, having the same orange stripes as her skirt. She wears a pair of orange, two inch heeled boots that come halfway up her shins, usually loosely tied at the top if they are tied at all. Her accessories include a pair of mechanical cat ears of black and orange detailing at the top and black, metal cuffs around her wrists.

-Different kinds of science
-Watching people (yes in the creepy stalkerish way)
-Finding new hiding places
-Being noticed for her work
-Shiny things/flashy objects
-The occasional nap out in the bright sun

-Barbaric fight styles (lul fuck you squad 11)
-Wasting anything
-Being too bored
-When she's found out when she's watching
-Being avoided
-When people think she wants to be petted because of the cat ears she made herself.
-Being snuck up on

-She doesn't know what boundaries are and easily crosses them.
-When someone interests her she will target them until either she knows everything she wants or until they become boring, even if they notice her
-She has a curiosity so much higher than that of a cat which can get her into trouble.

-She is very intelligent
-She learns and adapts to things quickly
-She always has an answer to anything anybody may ask her, even if its a bit strange to use her analytical skills in explaining for a personal situation.

Ariella loves anything that she either already knows or has to figure out. If something new presents itself to her its rare for her t even sleep until she has a good understanding of it. Her most used way of getting information is just by observing, observing people, observing people without telling them, keeping hidden and watching and taking mental notes to study later. However if she is caught in the act it hardly stops her. she just watches right out in the open, keeping what she thinks is distance (even if she is sitting right next to her current target) as she watches, often making things rather uncomfortable very fast.

She is also not opposed to the long running reputation squad 12 has about creepy tests running on other people. If its for the sake of knowledge to feed her curious nature then she's hardly opposed to doing what she has to and she wouldn't stop smiling about it for even a second (though she would not want to kill a test subject). Sure people are great but much like a cat she is more or less not too inclined to their feelings or how they think it might be a little be strange of her. Clearly she isn't the best friend to come to when it regards personal problems, using scientific and psychological languages to explain why said person might be feeling the way they are or doing what they are doing. She doesn't look at anything beyond that.

That's not to say she is emotionless though. She is always happy when she learns something new and stressed when she can't get an answer. Emotions are something that interest her, hence her psychology studying but it isn't something she chooses to delve into just for the sake of her sanity.

-She created a pair of cat ears that she wired up to buds in her actual ears that boost sound for her, giving her hearing abilities beyond that of a regular person. They have a black exterior with the inner parts being made up of an orange painted metal and white microphone.

name: Sakebi

sealed form: Sakebi is in the shape of a tanto hanging from a leather orange strap at Ariella's side. It has a black sheath with the ever common orange stripe running alon its thin sides. Its handle is black in color, seeming to be made of dyed wood. The blade is only eight inches long and a smoky gray in color.

spirit: Sakebi is a average sized woman in height and weight. She has long black hair that covers her crimson eyes and perfectly white skin. She wears a tattered off white dress that hnags all the way down to the ankles and revealing her bare feet. She has long, pitch black finger nails as well as toe nails. On her head she has a pair of large black ears of a bobcat, always seeming to twitch at the smallest noise.

She is like a demon. She doesn't enjoy killing the way Ariella's inner hollow does. Instead she is in favor of torture. Her high pitched screams are enough to burst ear drums and leave some one in agony and she is very pleased with that fact. Death actually revolts her. Its because of this she is not a weapon meant for out right killing.

inner world: Her inner world looks like nothing except open space, great clouds all around and sometimes raining. the only surface standing is a tall white metal pillar with a platform around the top only 7 feet in diameter. Up higher is a series of four orange and black cracked speakers, sending out loud sirens every so often.

release command: Shout

description: Her released blade isn't a sword at all. Instead it takes the form of a disk around both of her wrists as well as her ankles with a diameter of 6 inches. They are black in color with an orange band going around its edges where there's an indent in them.

type: sound waves

techniques: Name: CD
Type: Offensive
Cost: low
Range: short-medium
Description: From the discs around her ankles and wrists, orange waves of visible sound spiral around, a foot in diameter. The high frequencies of the waves make them as good as extended, circular saw-like blades while also release high pitches that can effect her opponent for one post, making them disoriented unless their han is greater than her sei. The discs themselves last a total of five posts. However she can instead choose to launch them as projectiles. She can only use this again three posts after the last disc is gone.

Name: Cassette
Type: Offensive/Defensive
Cost: Low
Range: medium
Description: The sound waves release themselves from the bands at one of her wrists, traveling through the air, flowing to Ariella's will until returning to the band at her other wrist. this can be used to bind her opponents if used in distance. If she uses it with speed it can act like a shield from a weapon or hit, able to take one attack before snapping. It used to bind it is good for two posts if her opponents hak is less than her sei and only one if it is the same or greater than.

Name: Gramophone
Type: Offensive
Cost: medium-high
Range: long
Description: The bands around her wrists and ankles let out blasting, high putched ringing that spread over an area of 50 feet. This is enough to disorient an opening, even busting the eardrums of an opponent with a Han lower than her Sei. This lasts for two posts. If Ariella puts more energy into this attack it can have a more physical effect, the waves being more solid and able to impact her opponent and send them flying back with a blow equal to her Hak.

Name: Mp3
Type: Offensive
Cost: Medium
Range: Medium
Description: This is just like Gramophone only locked on and more precise. Her bands release sound waves once more only this time in a compressed orange beam. It will fill her target's ears with its high pitches ring as well as having the physical effect of a high energy Gramophone..

Name: megaphone
Type: offensive
Cooldown: 4 posts
Cost: medium
Range: medium
Description: the disc cuffs around Ariella's ankles and wrists glow a bright orange before letting out a horribly high pitched screech. After this they will let out a field of sound waves one at a time, totalling four in total. These can knick back an opponent as well as fill their head with that deafening screech. If her Sei is higher than her opponents Han by four it might cause their eardrums to burst as it passes by them. Each field can go up to twenty feet away from her.

For: shikai
Name: Volume
Type: offensive
Cooldown: 1 pose
Cost: low
Range: short
Description: Charging up sound within one of the disks around her ankles or wrists, Ariella can release it with a hit toward her enemy. This short release of energy reaches her target before her hit or kick does, dealing blunt damage equal to her Sei. This adds to the damage that her blows could potentially make. The blast only travels an inch away from her body though, making it a complete hit or miss kind of attack.

name: Lamia

appearance: Lamia is quite the contrary to Ariella. She is a flat girl, looking young for her age which matches Ariella's own. Her skin is pure white and her eyes are blood red with black sclera, deep wrinkles showing insanity under them along with dark circles. Her hair is the same pure white, stick straight against her head, falling down to the middle of her back and held back with a black bow. She has a bony body type, far under weight which only makes her look even younger.

She wears a black dress with a high white collar. It has a three quarter sleeve length and hugs her torso tightly. The skirt of the dress is more loose and flowy, stopping just under her knees where a pair of white stockings begin. On her feet she wears a pair of unheeled black dress shoes.

Lamia has a constant look of craze no matter what. She is always smiling but the blank look in her crimson eyes hardly make it look like a safe, kind smile, instead showing that that she truly enjoys her darker intentions. She really looks like a terrifying child if nothing else.
Look at Me!~

personality: Matching her appearance Lamia is childish. She makes a game of hide and seek out of death. She would rather her opponent hide from her, cowering for their lives as she hunted for them, searching every crack and crevice as she taunts them until finally finding their hiding place. She also believes in quick kills, unlike Ariella who is rather against killing just for research purposes. Lamia would rather not have there be any logic behind anything, staying in the state of mind as an uneducated child and liking it that way. Logic makes one think too much and thus gets in the way.

hollow mask: Her hollow mask is plain and white without a chip or blemish in it. The only opening in it are in the shape of slit eyes and then a thin crack of a cat like smirk over her mouth. It has an orange marking resembling flames over her left eye and the same orange filled in like a top lip over the mouth opening. On each side of the mask is a short row of bottom and top jaws with sharp feline like teeth.

CLICK ME TOO!!

stat upgrades: +2 Sei +2 Hak

Human Life:
Ariella was born with two older siblings, a sister and a brother in a middle class family of America. However her and her siblings didn't have to same father. Her mother had fled from her siblings' father in Korea. She knew early on that her sister disliked her greatly as well as Ariella's father who had only stayed around long enough to see Ariella to the age of two, and even then he didn't do anything to care for the other two children.

It wasn't just her sister who made it bluntly clear she didn't like Ariella. Other kids the family lived around constantly teased her for being of a mixed race, especially when she would speak to her siblings in Korean since they weren't as good with english and then when she did speak english it was with a clear accent even if she never lived in Korea herself. She was exiled from their games, left to play with grass or climb trees just to see what was in them, developing her curious nature just to pass the time.

Her brother was different though. He loved his younger sister, tagging along most of the time on her journey's outside to prod around in different things. He couldn't understand what the other kids were saying when his sister seemed to become upset so he cou;dn't speak out and defend her. He would do everything he could to comfort her later though, telling her stories of princesses oddly enough named Ariella or singing to her. He was the only one that seemed to care so much for her and his care was returned tenfold.

When Ariella was fifteen her mother walked out on the family, leaving her twenty year old sister to take care of them now. Of course her first order of business was shipping Ariella off to hard day work since she could get the most real jobs with her ability to speak english, something the other two never had gotten down, only able to do small jobs here and there, more if Ariella was around to translate. She was worked to the bone in a local factory, watching as other girls maimed themselves in the machines, always being sure to play close attention to what she was doing, even when she would get a cut or scrape or mess something up and get a good scolding. When she returned home she had everything taken from her to pay for what the family needed and a good few cruel words from her sister every night.

One night when she came home it was different though. The moment she closed the door she was pressed up against it by a strong cold hand around her neck. She let out a cry, her eyes closing as she struggled to breathe and get away from the hand pinning her there. When she managed to get one eye open she spotted her sister with a grim look on her face, glaring at her with pure hatred. She had finally snapped. Ariella tried to fight against her but she was so tired. She cried, knowing she was going to die.

Suddenly though she was freed, collapsing to the floor with a heavy cough and deep gasps as she tried to catch her breath. She felt something warm seep through her sock, looking up to see her sister lying on the ground in front of her, a puddle of red coming from under her body and blood dripping from the corners of her mouth. What surprised Ariella most was the sad smile she wore and the apologetic look in her eyes before they went dull and her sister's head hit the floor lifelessly.

There was a hand on her shoulder then and Ariella flinched, only to look up and see the concerned eyes of her brother. It was then she also noticed the bloody pair of gardening shears in his hand. It was then she put together what had stopped her from being killed. He had killed their sister in order to save the life of his dear Ariella. She got up instantly, clinging to him and crying as he comforted her, even if it seemed to be in an off way for him.

A few more years passed and Ariella had been allowed her free time again after a short while. As it turned out her sister had been saving nearly every penny as a way to get enough money to ditch her siblings. After Ariella and her brother found that stash they had quit working save for a small job here and there just to make sure they didn't run out. Ariella returned to her wandering around curiously, going to the library where she learned even more with the help of the librarian who was happy to help her with words she didn't know. She was happier than she had ever been, even with the price that had to be paid.

This lasted until Ariella turned eight-teen. She was at home waiting for the return of her brother who had been out doing something as small work. When he returned home finally, Ariella knew something was wrong. She went to her brother's side with concern only to be met with a hard, closed fist impacting with her cheek. She tumbled to the ground, looking up in fright as her brother glared down at her with a smile so sick and twisted. It resembled the same one her sister used to give her. She was terrified. She tried to flee only to have a hand fist in her hair and pull her back, shoving her head to the floor. She managed to turn her head enough to see her brother raised those same gardening shears up in the air above his head then quickly bring them down before she felt a strangling pain in her neck. She felt the blood fill her mouth and lungs and spew out from her neck with no where else to go. Her vision faded to black as she stared at her brother's now concerned, horrified face, like he didn't even know what he had just done. Ariella only managed a smile before the life left her body.

Afterlife:
As a soul Ariella was sent to the Soul Society. She was left with no memories of her life, only knowing she wanted to know what was going on around her. She would walk the streets for days without even realizing it until she was struck with hunger at times. She never much had the means to d anything for work, always spacing out or wandering off to a completely different district of Rukongai. Because of this she had to resort to taking the food she needed,

It was then one she spotted a shinigami. She instantly wanted to know about them and soend the next few months learning everything she could about them, a certain aspect intriguing her in particular. A research and development force recently being established. That sounded like just her kind of job. And when they mentioned that it was for those with more powerful souls, those who had the same hunger and aura as her, she knew she had to go for it.

The next year she entered into the academy, landing herself in advanced placement classes. She was never much for battling with the swords they were given but her skills in the more spiritual aspect caught eyes. In time she had graduated. One of those eyes she had caught was a part of squad 12 and with a good word or two about the girl's personality and researching nature she was brought into the squad, ranking up to a seated officer with ease. She found herself diving into this new life of hers with happy eagerness, even if some of the others in the developing facility were really strange ones. Who had ever said she was any more normal than them?

Out gathering hollows for sampling one day something seemed to change. She had stumbled on a large group of them which would do fine. She could have rounded them up easily enough but suddenly something struck her, an old haunting memory of a smirking face at her with evil intentions. It didn't take the form of a memory though, just a presence. Ariella's vision faded to black and she thought she had just gone to sleep. That wasn't the case.

When She came to she felt suffocated by something over her face, only a small amount of light reaching her eyes. She reached up, clawing at her face and only finding bone that chipped away from over one eye. With worry she tore the rest of whatever covered her face, looking at what looked like a hollow mask that then crumbled in her hand. She remember the incident that had happened a decade or so prior, shinigamis that had been cursed with hollow masks and set to be disposed of before they went missing. She knew how serious this issue was.

From that point on she did everything in her power to not be found out as a visored living among the shinigami, lab work making it somewhat easier. She put extra focus into becoming more adept with her shikai, hoping she could pass off this new heightened power of hers as just getting stronger. With this she ranked up to the third seat of her squad. Even when the visoreds were welcomed back into the gotei 13 she didn't let many know about her own inner hollow, still finding it to be too early to be fully sure of what fate all of the visoreds would meet.

I don't really feel like typing one or going through the trouble to get a link when its common knowledge i have an EL-1. So you get this:

AV-3

HAN: 10
REI:15
HAK: 12
SEI: 12
BUK: 10
HOH: 11
Points Earned: 20
Total points: 70

Ulqui

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